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Assoc. Brit. I.R.E., 1946. Emigrated to Canada. Briefly designed and manufactured radios, phonographs, etc. with Breadner Company Ltd.
Then, after a number of career changes, studied at Carleton University and York University.
Obtained Ph.D. in psychology. Lectured at York University and Seneca College. Served on the Boards of numerous agencies in and around Toronto.
Engaged in private practice. Retired 1988.
* probably on loan to RIN, although Apr 1946 Navy List has him listed as RINVR

* Special Branch officer employed on staff,
etc., duties ashore, who has not received any training of an executive
nature

(07.1945)

-

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

A grandchild writes: "Initially
served at Hong Kong and Singapore 1939-1942. He
worked in naval intelligence for FECB (Far Eastern Combined Bureau), Colombo
1942-1945. He is now
listed on the Bletchley Park veterans website as well."

Lambert,Wilfred
Son of William Taylor Lambert (?-1926), of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Married (07.09.1929, Kingston-upon-Hull, Sculcoates district, East Riding of
Yorkshire) Irene May Lowe (16.02.1903 - ), daughter of Norman Carter Lowe, of
Kingston-upon-Hull; one son, ond daughter.

26.09.1903Kingston-upon-Hull, Sculcoates district, East
Riding of Yorkshire
-
08.05.1970Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire

Staff Officer (Intelligence), Dover Command [HMS
Lynx][1945 with a detachment accepted the
surrender of two German U-boats in Dover Harbour]

1945

-

(10.1945)

Commanding Officer, HMS Louis (frigate)

(04.1946)

HMS Cooke (?) *

After the war he had command of a squadron
of destroyers in Victoria Docks, Hull prior to being returned to the
USA. Started the Humber Division RNVR in
Hull with name of HMS Galatea, being in command 1946-1958; RNVR ADC to HM the Queen,
1955-1957.

* His son writes: "Apart from getting back from West
Africa he was in the Plymouth casualty pool for Officers wounded in action. He
supposedly was sent to HMS Ilfracombe to take over from an Officer injured in
attack on the vessel which hit a ships compass?"
** indexed, but not listed as such

* indexed, but not listed as such
His daughter writes: "My father joined the RN in 1940, saw service in the North
Atlantic before being sent to HMS King Alfred at Brighton.
He was based in Cardiff in 1942 as a Lieutenant when I was born there and he
went to the Far East in 1943. His war medals include the Burma Star and he was
awarded the MBE but I do not know why. In 1946 he was a Lieutenant Commander in
the process of transferring to the RN when he lost his arm when a staff car he
was travelling in in Plymouth was struck by a lorry. He was invalided out."

MI6 - clandestine operations in Albania 1949-50;
journalism and broadcasting in Greece 1951-55; led archaeological underwater
survey in Crete 1955; Clare College, Cambridge 1955-56; Head of Greek-language
service, BBC World Service 1957-61; farming Buckinghamshire 1961-70;
Conservative candidate in 1964 and 1966 General Elections; business consultant,
writer, translator in Greece 1969-2003; Consultant to the President of the
American College of Greece, Athens.

His son writes: "He became a Sea Transport Officer
at Port Said and Alexandria post-war until settling in Australia, where he became a
Traffic Manager for Shipping Companies."
* indexed, but not listed as such

Geoffrey Lee's son writes: "After going
through Dad's letters to Mum in 1946-8, some information came to hand. He had
something to do with the military as he was in Valparaiso, Chile in November
1941. Not sure what that was about because he would have only been 16½ years
old. His Date and place of enlistment was at HMS Duke at Malvern. Conscripted at
Dover Street, Manchester. He was a Stoker (Navy Engineer) Grade 2. P/KX 27767
Training in the Royal Navy in the Malvern Hills while listed to the HMS Duke.
Later changed to JX. 17 June 1943. In London 11 September 1943 Class 323 Top Div
HMS Glendower. About October 1943 Moved from a stoker (Naval Engineer) to a
gunner as a Naval Commando. He was involved in a Commando Raid on French Coast
at Normandy 21 November 43. Served as an Officer (Sub-Lieutenant) on Arctic
Convoys. Became a Commissioned Officer about February 1944. HMS King Alfred
Naval College - Commissioned. 1944 RAF Station, at Nuneham, just outside Oxford-
on an intelligence course. He was mates with Johnnie Hankin, US Army Air Corps.
Appointed Temporary Midshipman RNVR (Sp) of His Majesty's Ship King Alfred
additional by command of the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High
Admiral of the United Kingdom-letter dated 4 April 1944, signed H.V. Markham,
Admiralty S.W.1 D-Day: An Officer (Sub Lieutenant) on D Day landings at
Normandy. Involved in combat intelligence. The Normandy landings (codenamed
Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of
the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord. He was at Scapa Flow and
escorted Russian Convoys on HMS Nairana about August 1944. ( January 1945:
Active service on HMS Nairana, an aircraft carrier, as Sub Lieutenant G. Lee
RNVR. HMS Nairana (D05) was the lead ship of Royal Navy's Nairana-class escort
carriers in WW2, operated escorting convoys & doing anti-submarine work in the
Atlantic& Arctic. At one stage, a bomb exploded under Dad, blowing him clear
when others all around die. Hospitalised without sight or hearing for many
weeks. His hearing returned first, then his sight. Decades later, Mum and Dad
met a lady who recognised him while shopping in Sydney. It was his nurse from
that hospital. In June 1945 he was on ship Heading toward Fremantle, Western
Australia on the way to Melbourne and Sydney where he met my Mum. He returned
home in November 1945 and was awarded Atlantic Star Medal.
Other movements: 3 January 1946: Letter advising of being on the books of HMS
Pembroke - had written a letter on 5 December 1945 to Supply Officer HMS
President 1. 20 January 1946: Posted in Cardiff Sunday 20 January 1946-2 week
Sea Transport Officers Course commencing on Monday 21 January 1946 to be posted
in India, the Far East or eastern Mediterranean. Commodore & Captain Sir Henry
Digby-Best. (Ministry of War Transport letter). 21 January 1946: Appointed
Temporary Sub-Lieutenant of His Majesty's Ship HMS Lucifer by Command of the
Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United
Kingdom. (H.V. Markham). January 1946: Navy informed of job at HMS Lucifer at
Cardiff, as S.T.O. VI, temporary (Sea Transport Officer-sending people to
transports, to be trained as a torpedo Officer and posted to some station or
ship. (Possibly 'Golden Hind'. 3 January 1946: Took HMS Queen, an escort
aircraft carrier to the Middle East. Similar to old ship, Nairana. Arriving
Friday 8 March at Gibraltar, by way of bay of Biscay, Portugal. Left Malta
Tuesday 12 March, heading to Port Said, Thursday 14 March. 14 March 1946:
Arrived Thursday 14 March. Departed HMS Queen for Port Said Hotel but advised
job will be in Alexandria. 17 January 1946: Alexandria. Superintending Sea
Transport Officer-Sea Transport Officer in charge of a Port. 18 March 1946: 5th
Floor Hotel on sea front in Alexandria. Appointment to HMS Nile, Alexandria,
Egypt. Monday 18 march 1946.Tuesday 19 March-ship 'Princess Kathleed' arrived
unloading Greek & Cypriot refugees-difficult to handle. USA 'Colorado Springs
Victory' arrived. 19 March 1946: HMS Nile-HMS Nile was a shore establishment,
rather than an actual vessel. Based at Ras el Tin Point, Alexandria, Nile had a
large number of personnel on the books - mainly those based in the Eastern
Mediterranean. 10 May 1946: Sub Lieutenant G. Lee on HMS Nile on Friday 10 May
1946.Commander Irving of the HMS Nile, was staying at the same English Pension
and chatted frequently. 14 September 1946: Received signal confirming release
from the Royal Navy on receipt of demob signal.56 Days re-settlement leave & 8
days foreign service leave granted. Civilian clothes to be obtained from Army
sources. Substituted passage to Australia approved. 27 September 1946: Left for
demob in Port Said on 8.45 train. Then ship to Australia and a job at NSW
Stevedoring Co Ltd, 28 O'Connell St, Sydney. 29 September 1946: Release from
Naval Service-Class A. Regarded as being in Reserve, to be recalled in case of
emergency.4 Park Road, Burwood, NSW, Australia. 29 October 1946: Began work on
Tuesday 29 October at Trans Atlantic Airways which had formed early September
1946. Wage was 7 pounds for a 38 hour week. Sydney 31 August 1950: Application
for appointment to the RANVR-referred to Admiralty. Sent to Staff Office
(Reserves), HMAS Rushcutter, Beach Road Edgecliff, NSW from 1 Angle Street,
Balgowlah, NSW. 1973: Returned to English home and re-united with family for
first time since moving to Australia. Local papers article covered this."

811
Squadron FAA [HMS Biter (Archer class escort carrier)][while flying a patrol in a Swordfish Mk.II shot down by gunfire from the German submarine U230, the aircraft exploded on hitting the water killing all on board]

Lewis,
John Benjamin
Son (with one brother) of Cliffe James Lewis (1891-1969), and Amy Phillips
(1892-1981).
Married Alison Bishop, daughter of Benjamin Bishop (1885-), and Jane Jackson
Scrymgeour; three daughters, one son.

Teacher, author and publisher. He first published a children's reading series in England in 1950 and then after migrating to Australia in 1951 he taught
and then set up his own publishing firm from 1956 to his death in 1978.

served at
Singapore & was captured in Sumatra and spent the rest of the war as a POW
in Japanese captivity

BSc CEng AMIEE. Joined the engineering and
electrical machinery manufacturer Bruce Peebles Ltd in Edinburgh as a young
graduate. He pushed for a posting, and in 1951 went to the Manchester-Sheffield
railway electrification project. The building of the experimental fast-breeder
nuclear reactor at Dounreay saw him moving to Caithness in 1956 to take charge
of the establishment of power-generating equipment for the station. He completed
his professional life as lecturer in electrical engineering at Robert Gordon's
Institute of Technology in Aberdeen, now Robert Gordon University. Polymathic laird of a small
estate in Aberdeenshire, the origins of which lie in the 13th century. Coull
Castle, now administered by Historic Scotland, was the stronghold and principal
seat of the Durward family. Freeman City of Glasgow (Inc. of Hammermen), Freeman
of Berwick on Tweed 24 May, 1947, chm N.E Region, Roy Scottish Forestry Soc
1961-67, Sec NE Regn. Scottish Woodland Owner’s Associate.

His daughter writes: "He did mention being dropped
behind enemy lines in the former Yugoslavia. He was christened John Michael Long
but he chose to call himself Michael John Long."
* indexed, but not listed as such

observer,
816 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] [Swordfish I W5908 was hit by AA fire while
minelaying off Le Havre & crashed on seashore. S/Lt. R.H. Poulson was killed.
S/Lt. R.B. Long and Ldg.Airm. D.H. Dickens survived and were made PoW (missing,
later reported to be POW)]

* In the 04.1940 Navy List shown under HMS Iron
Duke (battleship; training ship), but he never actually served on it
** In the 06.1943 Navy List still shown as such.
Date of appointment (erroneously) given as 05.05.1941, which is a mix-up with
A.J. Lowe.

Randal's brother Brian remembers: "While he was
in HMS Gentian in September 1941 HMS Gentian and HMS Myosotis, of which my
brother was commanding officer, were part of the escort of a convoy from the UK
to Gibraltar which HMS Vidette with me on board joined from Gibraltar and we all
met up in Gibraltar on my birthday. When Randal returned to Devonport in HMS
Helford in December 1945 I was there in HMS LST 363 and we hoped that my brother
Gerald Peter who was in HMS Burghead Bay somewhere in the English Channel would
also join us in Devonport but it was not to be."

* indexed, but not listed as such
A daughter wrties: "He was injured whilst training in Scotland - had a scar over
his eye. Captain of a landing craft on D Day. His craft was sunk. He remained in
Arromanches with one other RN officer, Jimmy Jonas, for some months. Served in
the Far East following VE day. Was in Trincomalee when Japan was bombed and
believed he would not have survived the next operation which would have involved
landing on beaches that they discovered after the war ended would have been very
unsafe to land. He said I could never join CND."

Lyons,
Archibald Herbert
"Archie"
Son (with four brothers and one sister) of Charles William George Robert Lyons
(1866-), and Florence Reeve (1874-1932).
Married (30.11.1932, Kidderpore, West Bengal, India) Aline Edith Overy
(21.10.1908 - 12.1989), daughter of Francis George Overy (1884-), and Edith
White (1879-).